Joseph Marie (landscape Gardener)
Joseph Marie may refer to: * Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher * Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix Joseph Marie, Count Dessaix (24 September 1764, Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie – 26 October 1834) was a French general of the Napoleonic Wars. Career He was born at Thonon in Savoy. He studied medicine, took his degree at Turin, and then went t ...

Joseph Marie, Baron De Gérando
Joseph Marie, baron de Gérando, born ''Joseph Marie Degérando'' (29 February 1772 in Lyon, France – 10 November 1842 in Paris), was a French jurist, philanthropist and philosopher of Italy, Italian descent. He is most remembered for his 1804 book ''Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, considérés relativement aux principes des connaissances humaines'' (''Comparative History of philosophical systems, considered in relation to the principles of human knowledge'') as well as his 1820 study of benevolent activity, ''Le visiteur du pauvre'' (''The visitor to the poor''). He influenced Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and especially Ralph Waldo Emerson who used his philosophical framework extensively in support of his own first book ''Nature''. Main writings *''Des Signes et de l'Art de penser considérés dans leurs rapports mutuels'', 4 vol., 1799-1800
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